Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for the U.S. Global Engagement Initiative (USGE) at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
He is also a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, the director of the Policy Analysis sub-course in the National Security Affairs Department, and the Captain Jerome E. Levy Chair in economic geography and national security.
Gvosdev was the editor of The National Interest and remains a senior editor at the magazine. In addition, he holds a non-residential senior fellowship at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a co-author of U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower (2015). He previously published Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors and Sectors (with Christopher Marsh) in 2013.
Gvosdev is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy and international relations, Russian and Eurasian affairs, and developments in the Middle East.
Featured Work
MAR 22, 2023 • Podcast
How Feminist Foreign Policy Can Reshape the Globe, with Kristina Lunz
In the second conversation of our Women's History Month podcast series, Kristina Lunz, co-CEO and co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, joins "Doorstep" ...
MAR 15, 2023 • Podcast
Closing the Global Gender Gap, with Eliza Reid
For Women's History Month, "The Doorstep" is highlighting steps being taken for greater global gender equality. What can societies do to increase the pace of ...
MAR 8, 2023 • Podcast
Re-engaging Africa, with The New School's Sean Jacobs
At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December, President Joe Biden signaled that "Africa's success is the world's success." The New School’s Sean ...
FEB 28, 2023 • Article
U.S. Leaders Need to Make the "Doorstep" Case for Supporting Ukraine
The Biden administration continues to make its appeal for support for Ukraine's war effort, with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discussing the economic reasons in a "...
FEB 22, 2023 • Podcast
How the Ukraine-Russia War Has Changed the U.S., with Dr. Alex S. Vindman
Alex S. Vindman, former director for European affairs at the National Security Council, joins "The Doorstep" to assess how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war has affected ...
FEB 10, 2023 • Podcast
India Rising, with Harvard's Prof. Tarun Khanna
With India now at helm of the G20 and a summit set for New Delhi in September, the South Asian nation is stepping up its ...
FEB 1, 2023 • Podcast
Sanctions Loopholes, Rerouting Trade, & Russia's War Machine, with Rachel Ziemba
Leading up to the one-year anniversary of Russia's second invasion of Ukraine, Rachel Ziemba, head of Ziemba Insights and adjunct senior fellow at the Center ...
JAN 26, 2023 • Article
Is the West at "war" with Russia?
What does it mean precisely when German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says that the Euro-Atlantic community finds itself at "war” with Russia in Ukraine? Senior ...
JAN 19, 2023 • Podcast
Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations, with Christopher McKnight Nichols
From racialized notions of subjecthood and civilization in the 18th century to the neoconservatism, neoliberalism, and unilateralism of the 21st century, ideology drives American foreign ...
JAN 11, 2023 • Podcast
Will 2023 Be the Year of Global Power Shifts? with Judah Grunstein
Judah Grunstein, editor-in-chief of "World Politics Review," joins "Doorstep" co-hosts Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin for his annual review of global power shifts. The past 12 ...